Huntsville gazette., 1887-12-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL ANU GENERAL.
JAMES O'CONNELL, stage manager of
Charles Andrews Michael Strogoff COM
bnation, was struck dead by an electric
current which came down the bell wire
when he rang down the curtain at Robin
son Theater, Cincinnati, on the night of
the 10th. He was twentv-six years old.
GOTLIEB HANDEL, a Russian, returnin g
home, near Aberdeen, Oak, with load
Of wood from the Missouri river, became
lost in the darkness and storm within a
mile of home, and was found dead next
morning. He leaves a large family in
destitute circumstances.
ST. PAUL (Minn.) building statistics for
the year show total of over $11, 100000,
being g, 600, 600 more than last year, and
the largest ever known.
JUDGE SMELL, of the Washington Cd. CO.
police court, on the 10th, fined George W.
Harvey one hundred dollars for refusing
| to serve a colored lawyer named Hewlett
| is his restaurant Harvey took an ap-
peal
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON processes
surprise at the publication of report
that the Marine Hospital Bureau had de-
clared the non existence of cholera in
y
weekly abstracts of sanitary reports
clearly show the necessity of precautions
in the case of vessels from Southern Italy.
REV. CHAs. ALBERT BERRY, Of England,
declines the call to the pulpit of Plymouth
| Church, Brooklyn.
THE Russian Government has forbidden
pilgrims from Poland to present gifts or
addresses to the Pope on the occasion of
his jubilee.
! NJ. FAILLIERES has found it impossible
to form a Cabinet on the basis of the con-
| centration of Republican groups, and
President Carnot has given the job to
Senator Tirard.
The eleventh anniversary of the great
temperance revival in Pittsburgh, Pa,
when over $4,000 people signed the pledge,
was celebrated by Francis Murphy, the
evangelist, al the Bjou The ater in that
city on the night of the 18th. The meet
ing was one of the most enthusiastic ever
held there.
Rev. HUGH 0. PENTECosT has resigned
his position as pastor of the Belleville
Avenue Congregational Church of New
ark, N. j. His prominence in the labor
movement and his candidacy for mayor
of the city on that ticket at the last
charter election, as well as his utterances
in regard to the Chicago Anarchists had
estranged him from some members of his
congregation.
MRS. JOHN JACOB AsToR died in New
York on the evening of the II b.
E. L. HARPER, Cincinnati's famous
banker, was found guilty and sentenced,
on the 18th, to ten years imprisonment
He was taken to the Columbus peniten-
tiary the same day.
LUTHER SHAFFER, convicted of the mur
der of Isaac Colby and his wife, Nora, at
Cherry Run, Pa, in August last, was
sentenced at Lock Haven, on the 18th, to
be hanged. The prisoner displayed no
emotion.
The issue of standard silver dollars dur.
ing the week ended December 10 was
$721 0S1. The issue during the correspond
ing period Of last year was S626, 019. The
shipments Of fractional silver coin since
December amounted to $2SS, 2S3.
NJ RS. w. Fl. LoTBRoP, wife Of the presi-
dent of the First National Bank Of Ra-
cine, Wis, drowned herself in the lake
on the night of the 18th. She had been
demented for some time past.
FIRE on the evening of the 18th, at San
Francisco, destroyed ST. Mary's chapel
and parochial school. st. Mary's Hospital
was saved. The loss on the buildings will
not exceed $4,000, but many valuable
relics preserved in the chapel were de-
stroyed.
THE London branch of the National
League gave banquet on the evening of
the 10Th to Wilfred Blunt. A letter from
Gladstone was read, apologizing for his
absence. Dillon, Davitt, Jacob Bright
and other members of Parliament made
addresses.
PATRoLMAN AARON B. STEELMAN, of
Life-Saving Station No. 80, at Atlantic
City, N. j., discovered a body at an early
hour on the morning of the 18th on the
strand. 1t is supposed to be that of VIM.
Reed, the eccentric wealthy iron and oil
prospector of Pittsburgh, Pa, who has
been missing since Ooctober y.
THE London Tines Paris dispatch of
the 18th said that the judges were ex-
pected to give their decision in the Wilson
case on the 18th dismissing the charges
against NJ. Wilson on the ground that no
offense against the law had been COM
mitted.
PRIME MINISTER SAGASTA, in a speech
in the Spanish Cortes on the 18th, de-
cIared that the Government would not as
sent 20 the creation of tax on foreign
cereals, flour or cattle. Senior Puigcarder.
Minister of Finance, made similar
declaration in the Senate.
sWITCHMAN named James Holland,
while making coupling in the Omaha q
st. Paul ward. at Omaha, Neb., on the
18th. caught his foot IN frog and was
RIM over by the caboose of freight
train. cutting off his right leg below the
knee. He died two hours afterward-